Enlaps Tikee mini+ evaluation: long-term 4K timelapses, made straightforward

Enlaps Tikee 4: one-minute evaluation

Timelapse cameras are specialist units designed to do one job, and that’s to seize timelapses over quick and lengthy intervals, so long as months and even years, and in all climate and lighting situations. There are a handful of those specialist fashions obtainable, and one which’s a particular contender to high our record of one of the best timelapse cameras is the Enlaps Tikee 4.

This somewhat strange-looking digital camera can seize as much as 6K timelapse movies with a 220-degree view captured throughout two cameras and lenses. Photographs are then mixed right into a video after you add the picture information to the myTikee web site. What’s extra, if the digital camera is related to a Wi-Fi or LTE community you may management the digital camera, entry pictures, and course of timelapse movies remotely.

This is without doubt one of the best timelapse cameras to make use of, each when it comes to seize and processing. The digital camera is point-and-shoot, so probably the most concerned a part of the seize course of is establishing the mission interval – and truly that is extremely straightforward. With out Wi-Fi or LTE, you may connect with the digital camera utilizing the Tikee Distant app over Bluetooth, though performance is lowered in comparison with the opposite connection strategies.

The Tikee 4 prices $2,215 within the US for the digital camera solely. For UK and Australian patrons the Tikee 4 is priced in euros at €1,590, which converts to round £1,400 / AU$2,800 on the time of writing. The Tikee 4 Pack, which is a complete package together with a tough case, mounting adaptors, a microSD card and different equipment, prices $3,169 or €2,298, which is round £2,000 / AU$4,000.

You’ll additionally want a myTikee subscription to take full benefit of the myTikee web site, and probably the most helpful choice for most individuals prices $96 / €104 plus VAT per 30 days.

Enlaps Tikee 4 specs

Enlaps Tikee 4: Design

• Compact contemplating its options
• Constructed-in photo voltaic panel
• Distinctive design

The Tikee 4 appears just about similar to earlier fashions; it’s a tried and examined design that works, so it seems that Enlaps hasn’t felt the necessity to change it. It is a daring transfer in some methods, however why waste time redesigning the outside when it’s the {hardware} itself that makes the distinction? The general design is exclusive, nevertheless it works extraordinarily nicely, and it means the Tikee 4 might be left to work in even distant areas.

The general design is straightforward, with the sq. 7.87 x 7.87 x 2.76-inch / 200 x 200 x 70mm physique having two cameras on the 2 entrance corners of the digital camera physique, and a photo voltaic panel on the highest that may be left flat or angled for one of the best outcomes. The design is straightforward, minimalistic even, with all operation by way of the Tikee Distant cellphone app or the myTikee web site. The digital camera weighs 3.53lbs / 1.6kg, so it’s across the similar weight as a full-frame mirrorless digital camera and customary zoom.

With this straightforward design, there are two buttons on the rear, a microSD card slot, a USB-C port, a micro SIM slot and an influence connector. The ability connector design makes it waterproof, and you may connect the Tikee 4 to the mains or to a bigger, individually obtainable Enlaps photo voltaic panel. All ports have rubber covers that keep the climate resistance of the digital camera.

The construct high quality is great, and the digital camera feels strong, as you’d anticipate for the value. It’s undoubtedly a high-quality product, providing IP66 climate resistance, which permits it to face up to even the harshest climate situations. That is notably helpful, because the digital camera will spend most of its life outdoor. It may possibly function in temperatures between 14F / -10C and 122F / 50C.

Shifting again to the digital camera design, different options on the digital camera physique embody a metallic hoop to connect an anti-theft cable, a rubber sq. on the underside so it may be positioned on flat surfaces with out slipping, and a typical 1/4-inch screw thread for attaching the digital camera to any sort of assist. For long-term tasks, a mounting arm and an anti-theft cable are important equipment, and these are included within the package, making the Tikee 4 Pack a horny choice.

The interior battery has a 25,600mAh capability, and Enlaps claims that with none photo voltaic enter the Tikee 4 can take one photograph each quarter-hour, 24 hours a day, for as much as 36 days with none information transmission. With information transmission of photographs uploaded to myTikee the battery lasts as much as 12 days. In most conditions, the photo voltaic panel could be charging the battery throughout daylight, so the working period may very well be indefinite.

Enlaps Tikee 4: Efficiency

• Implausible picture high quality
• Panoramic discipline of view
• Simple to make use of

The Tikee 4 could also be an odd-looking timelapse digital camera with its two cameras on every of the entrance corners of the sq. physique, however every options Sony 12MP 1/2.3-inch sensors to provide a 220-degree horizontal and 90-degree vertical discipline of view. What’s extra, you may seize panoramic views in as much as 6K with dimensions of a whopping 7360 x 2650 pixels. Output is out there at 1080p, 4K and 6K.

Timelapse intervals can be found from 5 seconds to 24 hours in Lengthy-term mode, and from 5 seconds to 45 seconds in Occasion and Burst modes. This lets you seize each shorter- and longer-duration timelapse tasks.

It’s for longer-term tasks the place the Enlaps Tikee 4 excels, due to distant entry to the digital camera and pictures when related to LTE or Wi-Fi networks. These connection choices provide a a lot better expertise than utilizing simply Bluetooth to attach the digital camera to the Tikee Distant app to arrange tasks.

Picture high quality is implausible, and you may seize sequences in each uncooked and JPEG codecs. With the previous, this implies you may optimize picture high quality utilizing the raw-processing instruments in software program corresponding to Adobe Lightroom. You do, nevertheless, must output pictures in JPEG format with a view to add them to the myTikee web site.

Enlaps Tikee 4 timelapse video

The digital camera is totally computerized, which makes timelapse seize extremely easy, notably with long-term tasks throughout which gentle will continually change. The draw back is that backlit scenes might be compelled into underexposure, so this is the reason, for one of the best outcomes, capturing in uncooked and manually bulk-processing pictures is the most suitable choice. The digital camera additionally produces a lot better leads to brighter situations, like drones and motion cameras with equally small sensors.

When you’ve captured your pictures from the left and proper cameras, you then must add them to the myTikee web site, the place the pictures shall be merged to create the 220-degree panoramic view, and video as much as 6K might be output. In some conditions you may see the sew, and also you’ll discover it within the instance video above should you look intently. It’s minor, although, and it definitely doesn’t break timelapses.

The myTikee web site is straightforward to make use of, however subscriptions aren’t low cost, and naturally add to the general price of proudly owning and operating a Tikee timelapse digital camera. The essential Seize subscription prices $45 / €54 per 30 days plus taxes, whereas the intermediate and arguably most engaging subscription prices $96 / €104 plus taxes, and it can save you 25% with an annual subscription. Alternatively, there’s a bespoke Enterprise choice, with pricing obtainable upon request. And not using a subscription, I used to be in a position to output a fundamental 1080p video with a watermark.

Two add-ons can be found. Storage prices $49 / €39 per 30 days plus taxes and, as you’d anticipate, will get you extra on-line storage for photograph uploads, whereas AI Dashboard prices $99 / €89 per 30 days plus taxes and delivers some intelligent evaluation options. These embody the evaluation of a variety of parts inside scenes, corresponding to autos and whether or not PPE is being worn.

Do you have to purchase the Enlaps Tikee 4?

Purchase it if…

Do not buy it if…

How I examined the Enlaps Tikee mini+

• Examined utilizing a Bluetooth connection
• Used to seize shorter timelapses
• Examined in a busy metropolis

I examined the Tikee 4 in shorter bursts somewhat than for long-form timelapse seize, as testing it to the extremes of its potential for longer-term seize may take months.

I used my smartphone for Bluetooth connection somewhat than putting in a SIM card for distant entry to the digital camera. The Tikee 4 was examined in a busy metropolis to seize as a lot motion within the scene as attainable. It was additionally examined in low-light conditions.

With practically 30 years of photographic expertise and 17 years working as a images journalist, I’ve used most of the cameras and lenses which have been launched in that point. As a working photographer, I purpose to check cameras and lenses from a photographer’s viewpoint.

• First reviewed December 2025